Donald raises some interesting points. If it's true that camera manufacturers produce their products with just two markets in mind i.e. The (semi) Pro market and the Amateur market, where does that leave me? I am not a pro, or even a miniscule semi-pro, but I am used to having professional-level equipment such as Hassleblads and Nikon F4's as well as all the associated lenses. I could afford to buy the Canon D10 and the 24-70mm zoom lenses and was really p...ed off when I found that the flash didn't do the job it was supposed to do.

So I am left with two choices. As the D10 is perfect in ever other way I either have to buy, as Donald suggested, a Canon Speedlite propably the 420EX or else buy a smaller (in size) lens such as the 50mm f1.4 where the lens barrel won't get in the way of the flash path. I think it will be the flash.